At the Roots of Sociology. Science and Politics of Society in the 18th Century
Kaufmann, Laurence
At the Roots of Sociology. Science and Politics of Society in the 18th Century - 2017.
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The aim of this paper is to unfold the historical configuration that made possible, at the end of the 18th century, the emergence of « society » as the new ontological frame of collective existence as well as an « object » whose functioning sui generis is to understand and possibly to modify. This configuration did not only allow the invention of the object of sociology, that is, « society » ; it also led to the invention of the very word of « sociology », which appeared for the first time in the manuscripts of Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, one of the greatest legislators of the French Revolution. With the co-emergence of the « word » and the « object » of sociology, the potential antagonisms between individual and society, nature and art, social plurality and political unity, became a political and a scientific issue. This is the political significance of these antagonisms we inherited that this return to the roots of sociology aims to highlight.
At the Roots of Sociology. Science and Politics of Society in the 18th Century - 2017.
57
The aim of this paper is to unfold the historical configuration that made possible, at the end of the 18th century, the emergence of « society » as the new ontological frame of collective existence as well as an « object » whose functioning sui generis is to understand and possibly to modify. This configuration did not only allow the invention of the object of sociology, that is, « society » ; it also led to the invention of the very word of « sociology », which appeared for the first time in the manuscripts of Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, one of the greatest legislators of the French Revolution. With the co-emergence of the « word » and the « object » of sociology, the potential antagonisms between individual and society, nature and art, social plurality and political unity, became a political and a scientific issue. This is the political significance of these antagonisms we inherited that this return to the roots of sociology aims to highlight.
Réseaux sociaux